Category: Primary 2

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Christmas Story

Mr Welsh read us one of our favourite stories yesterday! We showed super listening skills and were paying close attention to see if we could hear our boost words!

Writing

During writing this week we wrote letters to Santa persuading him that we have been good this year. Some of our arguments include hoovering the rug, being kind and helping to do the dishes!

Christmas Lunch

We had such a delicious Christmas lunch on Wednesday! After our lunch, we wrote letters to the lunch ladies to thank them for our wonderful food. We tried super hard to use adjectives to describe our lunch.

STEM Challenge

On Tuesday, we began learning about the Christmas story. We learned that Baby Jesus was born in a stable. We had to demonstrate our collaboration, communication and leadership skills whilst working with the people next to us to build our very own stables! We had lots of materials to choose from but had to think hard about which materials should be used where. We discovered that the kitchen roll tubes were the best material to make the sides of the stable!

Salt Dough Hands

On Thursday, we each had a batch of salt dough and we had to print our hands into the dough. Once the dough has had a chance to dry over the weekend, we will paint them next week and bring them home!

Christmas Jumper Day

Look how great we all look in our Christmas jumpers!

Today we all said goodbye and good luck to Miss Hennessy as she is leaving to work in a new school. We are all very sad to see her go but wish her the best of luck and hope to see her again very soon.

Literacy

 

This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.

 

Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.

 

We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.

 

Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.

 

Maths

 

In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.

 

Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.

Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.

 

IDL

 

 

We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.

 

This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.

Have  read to see the fun things we have been up to this week!

Fun in the snow

Max – “We were making snowmen!”

Charli Mae – “We were working in a team to roll the snow to make a snowman”

Jordon – “Don’t throw snowballs because it might be dangerous”

Elizabeth – “When I was outside in the snow I was happy because I was having fun”

P.E.

Connor – “We went outside to do circuits”

Mark – “We were running on the spot, doing star jumps, lunges, squats and windmills”

Jayden – “It started to rain so we went inside and did some yoga”

Writing

Andrew – “We wrote about why Christmas is important”

Emily – “Christmas is great because you get to put up your Christmas tree”

Vrishti – “Christmas is great because you get to put a star on top of the tree”

Louie – “Christmas is great because you get to eat candy canes”

Stop Frame Animation

Euan – “We went with Mrs Buntin to make a stop frame animation. We moved the little characters and then took lots of little pictures of them”

Sophie – “It was fun. I am looking forward to seeing it finished”

Read, Write, Count

 

We loved coming to school in our jammies on Tuesday. All our lessons were about the book ‘ROCKETMOLE’. We created a fact file about ourselves during writing this week. Armstrong the Rocketmole wrote a letter to us asking for our help with addition. We were all every excited to receive our Read, Write, Count Bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy

In writing, we were persuading the reader that reading was important. We had a class discussion before we started and we identified all the different ways that we use reading in our everyday life. When included powerful persuasive language and connecting words within our writing.

In P3/2 we worked very hard sounding out our spelling words. We continued with rainbow writing and using our words in sentences. This week, we also found making a chant a useful strategy to help us remember how to spell our words.

 

Maths

This week, we were learning about addition. When adding our numbers together we found number squares and sticks useful to help us calculate the answer. We were also working on addition word problems.

IDL

In our Vikings topic, we were learning about what food th

e Vikings ate. The Vikings did not have supermarkets like we have today and they could not import food from other countries. Therefore, the Vikings could only get food that they could grow and catch. To keep their meat and fish fresher for longer, the Vikings would salt or smoke them.

Wow what an exciting week we have had! Have a read to see what we have been up to!

Read Write Count

Max – “We wore out pyjamas to school on Tuesday”

Jacob – “Read write count gave us a bag with books and other things in it”

Ethan – “Peter the Puppet came to visit us and was helping us make our rockets”

Alfie – “We read Rocketmole and had a whole day about the book!”

Andrew – “We were so nice and cosy all day in our jammies”

Numeracy

Euan – “Mrs Rodden came to our classroom to deliver a special letter from Rocketmole!”

Vrishti – “Rocketmole needed help add numbers to make his ship launch to the North Pole!”

Jayden – “We were having fun adding numbers to help make the ship launch”

Writing

Macy May – “We wrote about why reading is important”

Archie M – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read signs when you are driving”

Jordon – “Reading is important because you need to be able to read books”

Connor – “Reading is important because you need to read things at the shop”

Mark – “Reading is important because if you don’t read then you won’t know your words”

Word Boost

This week, we read “Cold Paws, Warm Heart”. Here are some of our boost words:

Mark – “Huge means really really big”

Archie P – “Confused means you don’t know what’s going on”

Oliver – “Crouch means you bend down low”

Vrishti – “Gulp means you take a big swallow”

Elizabeth – “Miserable means you are really really sad”

Literacy

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. We were improving our skim and scanning skills when reading to find information.

 

Darby- “In reading we were answering questions about the book. We had to write our answers in sentences”.

 

During ELF thus week we were focusing on varying our sentences lengths. We were trying to use connective words to extend our sentences.

 

Robyn- “In writing we were making our sentences bigger by using works like ‘because’ and ‘and’ “.

 

During Word Boost we were improving our vocabulary. We are introduced to the meaning of 6 boost words and we then use these to up-level our talking and listening and writing.

 

Maths

This week we continued to learn about number sequences. We were learning about number sequences where the rule was minus.

 

Aayan- “We were learning about number sequences that were take away. I used a 100 number square to help me work out the answer”.

 

We also were introduced to the game SumDog. There is a selection of different games that involve you using your maths skills. This is something we will be using in class to support our numeracy and maths skills.

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we enjoyed staying active and healthy during P.E. After warming up, we focused on balances.

 

Sarah-Louise- “We have been exercising and this makes me feel healthy”.

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week in P2.

Writing

Vrishti – “We have been learning about persuasive writing”

Archie M – “We had to persuade people about why school is important”

Andrew – “School is important so you can learn for when you grow up”

Numeracy

Jayden – “We have been finding efficient ways to bridge 10 in number talks”

Euan – “We have been trying to find the missing number in an adding sum”

IDL

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the sea animals into the right layer of the ocean. The dolphin went at the top in the sunlight zone.”

Macy May – “The sea animals all went in different layers.”

Sharing the Learning

In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a video all about our learning in P2 so far. This week, we became movie stars and began filming our sharing the learning.

Have a great weekend! Remember to wear your pyjamas on Tuesday the 24th November for our Read Write Count day!

Literacy

During Literacy this week, we were up-levelling our writing by adding adjectives and using our core writing targets.

Alexis- “I was writing sentences about Pudsey Bear”.

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. When reading, we made predictions about what might happen and looked at the picture for clues.

Tyller J. “I was reading my book”.

 

We have been practicing our new spelling sounds every day. We practice using our whiteboards, rainbow writing and using our spelling words when writing a sentences.

 

Maths

In maths this week, we were learning about patterns. We were also completing a number sequence and identifying the rule of the number sequence. We used a 100 square to support us and work out the rule and complete the number sequence.

 

Calvin- “Pattern is when the same thing is repeated”.

 

Aaron – “We were learning about number sequence. This is when you add the same amount to each number”.

 

IDL

For our topic this week, we were learning about Vikings homes and what they wore. We looked at what Vikings made their homes from. We compared a Viking house to our home and discussed the different materials that were used and the advantages and disadvantages of these materials. We also learned about how the Vikings dressed and the materials that their clothes were made from. The Viking used materials such a wool, leather and fur to make clothes and shoes.

 

Robyn- “We were learning about what the Vikings wore. They wore capes”

 

Scarlet- “They wore jewellery and broaches”.

Wow! What a busy week we have had in P2 this week! Have a read to see what we have been up to.

Spelling

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the pictures into the right box. We had to decide if the word started or ended with b”

Euan – “We had to play matching pairs. In this game you had to match your spelling words and say them”

Writing

Max – “We had to persuade someone why pets are good”

Archie P – “Pets are good because you can play with them”

Connor – “Pets are good because you can run races with them”

Number Talks

Jayden – “We are thinking of good ways to bridge the number 10”

Maddison – “10 is a happy number and we need to try and make that”

 

Under the Sea

Jacob – “We were painting the different zones of the ocean”

Sophie – “We had to start with the lightest shade and then it got darker and darker”

Mark – “I remember there was the sunlight zone, then the twilight zone, then the midnight zone, then the abyss, and the trench is at the very bottom of the ocean”

Remembrance Day

Archie M – “Remembrance day is a special day because it’s all about remembering people who died in the war”

Andrew – “We made poppies out of red and black paper to remember the soldiers who died in the war”

Children in Need

Jordon – “We have been exercising for 5 minutes every morning with Joe Wicks”

Amee – “We made Pudsey ears out of paper”

Kayden – “We had to measure our heads and then use glue to stick our ears on”

Have a great weekend everyone!